Awards

• Short-listed for Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year 2008
• Shortlisted for Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year 2008.

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The vivid narrative is like a bush detective story. - Steven Poole, Guardian Baboon Metaphysics is a distillation of a big chunk of academic lives.... It is exactly what such a book should be - full of imaginative experiments, meticulous scholarship, limpid literary style, and above all, truly important questions. - Alison Jolly, Science Cheney and Seyfarth's enthusiasm is obvious, and their knowledge is vast and expressed with great clarity. All this makes Baboon Metaphysics a captivating read. It will get you thinking - and maybe spur you to travel to Africa to see it all for yourself. - Asif A. Ghazanfar, Nature Through ingenious playback experiments... Cheney and Seyfarth have worked out many aspects of what baboons used their minds for, along with their limitations. Reading a baboon's mind affords an excellent grasp of the dynamics of baboon society. But more than that, it bears on the evolution of the human mind and the nature of human existence. - Nicholas Wade, New York Times

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Dorothy L. Cheney is professor of biology and Robert M. Seyfarth is professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. They are the authors of How Monkeys See the World, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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